Standing pipe faucet assembly

ABSTRACT

In a pipe faucet for assembling a faucet body formed of a hollow pillar with a separate body, the separate body corresponding the faucet body has a lateral hole groove, and a slantwise threaded hole through the hole groove at a chamber for installing a water mixing valve. A hollow tube connected an outlet pipe inserts into the hole groove. The hollow tube has a diameter equals an inner diameter, and a length shorter than a height of the hole groove. The hollow tube corresponding to the threaded hole has a slantwise blocking groove. After the hollow tube inserts into the hole groove, a bolt is screwed in the threaded hole, generating a backward push and against effect between the bolt and the threaded hole, fixing the outlet pipe and faucet body together. After the chamber has a water outlet through the hollow tube, the whole assembly is completely assembled.

BACKGROUND

1. Field of the Invention

The present application claims the priority of the corresponding Republic of China patent, which was filed on Oct. 19, 2007 and was assigned a patent application no. 096217574 by the Intellectual Property Office, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Republic of China.

The present invention relates to a standing pipe faucet assembly having a lateral hole groove laterally formed at a predetermined position of a separate body and a hollow tube of a faucet body, and a slantwise threaded hole formed at a chamber of a top portion of the separate body, so that a bolt can be screwed in and generate a backward push and against effect to the hollow tube inserted into the lateral hole groove from a rear end of the outlet pipe, and along with the depth of bolt penetration increases, the back push extent of the hollow tube increases, so as to fix the outlet pipe and the faucet body together. After the chamber at the top portion of the separate body defines a water outlet through the hollow tube at the rear end of the outlet pipe, the overall assembly of the outlet pipe and the faucet body is complete, replacing the traditional welding fixation method.

2. Description of the Related Art

In the manufacture of a traditional standing pipe faucet assembly, a solid copper pillar is used for turning the structure of a chamber for accommodating a water mixing valve and a separate body for installing a cold water inlet pipe and a hot water inlet pipe to define the faucet body assembly, and a water outlet is drilled from a lateral side of the separate body to connect an outlet pipe, and finally the water mixing valve is installed in the faucet body while the top of the water mixing valve includes a water control handle for controlling the ratio of cold water and hot water as well as the discharge flow. The aforementioned process is employed to manufacture a complete standing pipe faucet assembly.

From the foregoing standing pipe faucet assembly, the faucet body manufactured by a solid copper pillar gives a better quality than those manufactured by a traditional sand casting process, but the international copper price maintains very high, and thus increasing the overall material cost correspondingly. Furthermore, a large quantity of waste materials will be produced during the manufacturing and shaping processes of the copper pillar, and thus further wasting more materials and creating a burden and a waste to the overall material cost. Such standing pipe faucet does not comply with the cost-effective requirements of the industry and definitely requires improvements.

The inventors of the present invention have ever provided a standing pipe faucet assembly in U.S. Pat. No. 7,198,064 B1, in which a faucet body is slightly shaped by directly using a copper pipe and assembled together with a separately formed separate body to define the standing pipe faucet assembly. A chamber is disposed at an upper portion of the separate body from a top end thereof for installing a water mixing valve, and a lateral hole groove is defined at a lower portion of the separate body from a lateral side thereof, so that after the separate body is installed in the faucet body from a bottom end of the faucet body, the lateral hole groove corresponds to a through hole defined at one side of the faucet body and an outlet pipe welded to the faucet body, then a water inlet interconnect the water mixing valve and a water outlet passing through the lateral hole groove are defined through the separate body and the overall structure of the standing pipe faucet assembly is accordingly accomplished.

From the foregoing standing pipe faucet assembly, the faucet body is slightly shaped by directly using the copper pipe and therefore does not have enough thickness to dispose related structures such as threads to connect the outlet pipe, therefore, the faucet body and the outlet pipe are needed to be welded together and a welding mark is accordingly occurred thereby influencing the overall quality sense and aesthetic feeling of the standing pipe faucet assembly. Moreover, the welding quality lies on techniques and experiences of the workers, incurring the quality can not be stably maintained. Such standing pipe faucet can not name a perfect design for the industry and definitely requires improvements.

BRIEF SUMMARY

In view of the foregoing shortcomings of the prior art standing pipe faucet in assembling the faucet body made of a copper pipe together with the outlet pipe, the inventor of the present invention based on years of experience in the related industry to conduct researches and finally invented an improved standing pipe faucet assembly, purposing to through a structural design to assemble the faucet body together with the outlet pipe without adopting the welding process, thereby simplifying the assembly process and effectively maintains the overall quality.

Another objective of the present invention is to through a structural design to assemble the faucet body together with the outlet pipe without adopting the welding process to avoid the ugly welding mark from occurring so as to improve the overall quality sense and aesthetic feeling.

To achieve the foregoing objectives, the structural design of the invention has a lateral hole groove laterally formed at a predetermined position of a separate body and a hollow tube of a faucet body, and a slantwise threaded hole formed at a chamber of a top portion of the separate body, so that a bolt is screwed in and generates a backward push and against effect to the hollow tube inserted into the lateral hole groove from a rear end of the outlet pipe, and along with the depth of bolt penetration increases, the back push extent of the hollow tube increases, so as to fix the outlet pipe and the faucet body together. After the chamber of the top portion of the separate body defines a water outlet through the hollow tube at the rear end of the outlet pipe, the overall assembly of the outlet pipe and the faucet body is complete, replacing the traditional welding fixation method.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

These and other features and advantages of the various embodiments disclosed herein will be better understood with respect to the following description and drawings, in which like numbers refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a structure according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of a structure according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a planar structural relation view of an exploded state of a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a planar structural relation view of an assembled state of a preferred embodiment of the present invention; and

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a structural relation of an overall structure according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The structural assembly, technical measures, and functions of the present invention will become apparent in the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1 for the schematic view of a structure of the invention, FIG. 2 for the exploded view of a structure of the invention, FIGS. 3 and 4 for the planar structural relation views of the invention, and FIG. 5 for the schematic view of a structural relation of an overall structure of the invention, the structural design of a preferred embodiment substantially follows the structural design of the standing pipe faucet assembly pre-invented by the inventors, and is comprised by the faucet body 10 slightly shaped by directly using a copper pipe and the separately manufactured separate body 20, and a blocking rim 11 stamped and formed at the top edge of the faucet body 10 so that when the separate body 20 is inserted into the faucet body 10 from the bottom thereof, a surrounding orientation engagement can easily be obtained. The separate body 20 at its upper section has a chamber 21 for installing a water mixing valve 30 and at its lower section has a lateral hole groove 22 disposed at a lateral side, and the lateral hole groove 22 at its external section has a diameter expanding groove section 221 and a step surface 222, so that after the separate body 10 is installed at the bottom of the faucet body 10, the lateral hole groove 22 precisely corresponds to a through hole 12 disposed at a lateral side of the faucet body 10 for assembling an outlet pipe 13. The separate body 20 at its bottom surface of the chamber 21 for installing the water mixing valve 30 has a slantwise threaded hole 23 passing through an adjacent rear portion of the lateral hole groove 22. The aforesaid outlet pipe 13 at its rear side has a screw section 131 for assembling a separately manufactured hollow tube 14. A diameter of the hollow tube 14 substantially equals to an inner diameter of the lateral hole groove 22, while a length of the hollow tube 14 is shorter than a height of the lateral hole groove 22, and a rear end of the hollow tube 14 is closed. The hollow tube 14 at its predetermined position of the front end has two O-rings 1, 2 and at the rear end has a slantwise blocking groove 141, so that the hollow tube 14 assembled at the rear end of the outlet pipe 13 can plugged into the lateral hole groove 22, then a bolt 3 is screwed in the slantwise threaded hole 23, and a backward push and against effect is generated between a terminal end of the bolt 3 and the slantwise blocking groove 141, along with the depth of the bolt penetration increases, the back push extent of the hollow tube 14 is accordingly increased, and therefore the outlet pipe 13, the faucet body 10 and the separate body 20 are fixed together. The O-rings 1, 2 prearranged at the front end of the hollow tube 14 is hermetically engaged in the diameter expanding groove section 221 formed at the front end of the lateral hole groove 22 of the separate body 20, and finally the separate body 20 at its predetermined position of the chamber 21 has a cold water inlet 24 and a hot water inlet 25 staggered and isolated from the lateral hole groove 22 and a water outlet 26 passing through the increasing groove section 221 of the separate body 20 and the hollow tube 14, and the outlet pipe 14, the faucet body 10 and the separate body 20 are accordingly assembled together. After a washer 40 is installed and a cap 50 is secured to fix the water mixing valve 30 into the chamber 21 of the separate body 20 of the faucet body 10. Finally, a water control handle 60 is installed to complete the assembling of the overall standing pipe faucet assembly.

From the aforesaid structural design, since the separate body 20 corresponding to the through hole 12 of the lateral side of the faucet body 10 forms the lateral hole groove 22 for insertion of the hollow pipe 14 installed at the rear end of the outlet pipe 13, further utilizes the bolt 3 screwing in the slantwise threaded hole 23 to form a power to push the hollow tube 14 backwardly such that the hollow tube 14 installed at the rear end of the outlet pipe 13 is pushed backwardly by the bolt 3 so as to fix the outlet pipe 13, the faucet body 10 and the separate body 20 together. Since the O-ring 1, 2 installed at the front end of the hollow tube 14 have waterproof capabilities, after the water outlet 26 is manufactured and assembled, the water outlet modality of the water outlet 26 can be maintained and no water can leak from the water outlet 26, so as to replace the traditional welding technique for joining the faucet body 10 and the separate body 20 together, and thus not only avoiding the problem that the quality can not be stably maintained because of man-made factors, but also greatly improving the overall quality sense and aesthetic feeling. For solution such problems as the faucet body 10 made of a hollow copper pillar can merely be assembled to the outlet pipe 12 by welding method, the invention greatly and definitely improves its functional architecture, and is very useful to the industry.

In summation of the description above, the structural design of the pipe faucet assembly composed by the faucet body formed of copper pipe and the separate body gets rid of a traditional welding technique for joining the faucet body and the separate body together and innovatively employs an insertion-assembly-lock-push manner to fixedly unite the faucet body and the separate body together, and thus not only simplifying the manufacturing and assembling process and maintaining the manufacturing and assembling qualities, but also greatly improving the overall quality sense and aesthetic feeling. Overall speaking, the invention is very useful to the industry and further complies with the patent application requirements.

The above description is given by way of example, and not limitation. Given the above disclosure, one skilled in the art could devise variations that are within the scope and spirit of the invention disclosed herein, including configurations ways of the recessed portions and materials and/or designs of the attaching structures. Further, the various features of the embodiments disclosed herein can be used alone, or in varying combinations with each other and are not intended to be limited to the specific combination described herein. Thus, the scope of the claims is not to be limited by the illustrated embodiments. 

1. A standing pipe faucet assembly comprising a faucet body slightly shaped by directly using a hollow pipe and a separately manufactured separate body, and a blocking rim stamped and formed at the top edge of the faucet body so that when the separate body is inserted into the faucet body from the bottom thereof, a surrounding orientation engagement is easily obtained, the separate body at its upper section having a chamber for installing a water mixing valve and at its lower section having a lateral hole groove disposed on a lateral side, and the lateral hole groove corresponding to the faucet body, the separate body at its predetermined position of the chamber having a cold water inlet and a hot water inlet staggered and isolated from the lateral hole groove and a water outlet passing through the lateral hole groove, after a washer being installed and a cap being secured to fix the water mixing valve into the chamber of the separate body of the faucet body, and a water control handle being installed to complete the assembling of the overall standing pipe faucet assembly, wherein: the separate body at a predetermined position of its bottom surface of the chamber for installing the water mixing valve has a slantwise threaded hole passing through an adjacent rear portion of the lateral hole groove, the outlet pipe at its rear side installing a separately manufactured hollow tube, a diameter of the hollow tube substantially equals to an inner diameter of the lateral hole groove, while a length of the hollow tube is shorter than a height of the lateral hole groove and a rear end of the hollow tube is closed, the hollow tube at the rear end has a slantwise blocking groove, so that after the hollow tube assembled at the rear end of the outlet pipe is plugged into the lateral hole groove, a bolt is screwed in the slantwise threaded hole, and utilizing a backward push and against effect generated between a terminal end of the bolt and the slantwise blocking groove of the hollow tube, the outlet pipe and the faucet body are fixed together so as to replace the traditional welding technique for joining the faucet body and the separate body together.
 2. The standing pipe faucet assembly as described in claim 1, wherein the lateral hole groove of the separate body at its external section has a diameter expanding groove section and a step surface, the hollow tube connected to the outlet pipe at its predetermined position of the front end has two O-rings, so that when the hollow tube is pushed backwardly by the progress of the bolt screwed in the slantwise threaded hole, the O-rings installed at the predetermined position of the front end of the hollow tube obtaining a hermetically engagement relation with the diameter expanding groove section formed at front end of the lateral hole groove of the separate body, cooperating with the water outlet passing through the separate body and the hollow tube to obtain a predetermined water outlet function.
 3. The standing pipe faucet assembly as described in claim 1, wherein the outlet pipe at its rear side has a screw section for assembling a separately manufactured hollow tube. 